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Well that could be anything now couldn't it, it's far too broad if that's all the patent is made up of.. I could tell you Microsoft will follow that up about viewing files over a network.
Patents go far and beyond these days >__> *sarcasm*

I've looked at the patent. The patent was initially filed in 2000, and granted in 2006. It's a process-patent, made in a time where the internet was a lot smaller and this sort of thing could potentially have been considered unique. Given the fact that there is no actual unique design, IP, art or anything like that, but rather the system under which all such things might work together, the patent does seem rather vague. As such, it will be hard to establish that Zynga is using the exact same system as patented.